Strangeness Quotes

101 Strangeness quotes by 88 unique authors

To return to awareness is to notice this new world with baby-eyes, and to appreciate her strangeness. — Sara Genn
It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness. — Miguel Syjuco
Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty. — Charles Baudelaire
Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature. — Henry David Thoreau
You see, the strangeness of my case is that now I no longer fear the invisible, I’m terrified by reality. — Jean Lorrain
Mystery. The strangeness of place so necessary to some creative spirits. A perfect mixture of the classical utopia and the pagan mystery. — Dan Simmons
Although many, we might even say most, strangers in this world become easily the victim of a fearful hostility, it is possible for men and… — Henri Nouwen
My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness. — Anthony Doerr
It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more… — Daniel J. Boorstin
An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness. — Giorgio de Chirico
Everything is extraordinarily clear. I see the whole landscape before me, I see my hands, my feet, my toes, and I smell the rich river… — Gautama Buddha
Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off our hearses within the hour; tears will… — Alexander Smith
We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses… — Richard Le Gallienne
We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us. — Charles Baudelaire
To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's also to feel,… — Meghan O'Rourke
To pretend you don't feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy. — Trevor McDonald
A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of the aloe, is indeed an element in all true works of art: that they shall excite or… — Walter Pater
If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you… — Paul Gauguin
Sanity ... had it ever been more than a convention -- a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking, which excluded from… — C.S. Lewis
I feel compelled to make art that on one hand reflects and sometimes almost creates like a sense of comfort when confronted with the strangeness… — Unknown Author
The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art. — Jackson Pollock
The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The… — David Remnick
Dating is just awkward moments and one person wants more than the other. It's just that constant strangeness. I think it's a very real thing. — Jason Schwartzman
I was having a conversation with my father and he was talking about this thing - strangeness and charm. It's actually the name of the… — Florence Welch

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